Lepidoptera Seminars “Lepinars”
There will be biweekly seminars on Zoom by Lepidoptera researchers. Please contact Joana Meier (jm2278(at)cam.ac.uk), Luca Livraghi (miles.livraghi(at)gmail.com) or Gabriela Montejo-Kovacevich (gmontejokovacevich(at)gmail.com) if you would like to be added to the email list for the talk announcements.
The talks start at 4 pm UK time.
Schedule
11 May 2020: Luca Livraghi (U Cambridge, UK)
The gene cortex controls scale colour identity in Heliconius
25 May 2020: Joe Hanly (George Washington U, USA)
Investigation of wing pattern mutants in a domesticated population of Heliconius melpomene
8 June 2020: Kelsey Byers (U Cambridge, UK)
QTL for potential wing and genital pheromone compounds show clustering across the genome
22 June 2020: Krzysztof Kozak (Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panama)
Population genomics of large mimetic radiations
6 July 2020: Melanie Brien (U Sheffield / U Cambridge, UK)
The genetics and evolution of structural colour in Heliconius butterflies
20 July 2020: Nate Edelman (U Harvard, USA)
The molecular basis of hybrid female sterility in Heliconius pardalinus subspecies
3 August 2020: Nicol Rueda (U del Rosario, Colombia)
Importance of environmental variables in the distribution and natural hybridization of Heliconius butterflies.
7 September 2020: Wyatt Toure (McGill U, USA / STRI, Panama)
Heliconiini butterflies can learn time-dependent reward associations
21 September 2020: Erika Pinheiro de Castro (U Cambridge, UK)
Phenotypic plasticity in chemical defence allows butterflies to diversify host use strategies
5 October 2020: Matteo Rossi (LMU, Munich, Germany)
Genetics of visual mate preference in Heliconius butterflies
19 October 2020: Gabriela Montejo-Kovacevich (U Cambridge, UK)
Local adaptation in Heliconius butterflies (beyond mimicry)
2 November 2020: Alexander Hausmann (LMU, Munich, Germany)
Heliconius mating behaviours affected by light environment during early stages of divergence
16 November 2020: Francesco Cicconardi (U Bristol, UK)
A Flock of Genomes: New and revised genomic resources for 58 species of Heliconiini
30 November 2020: Lucie Queste (U York, UK / LMU, Munich, Germany)
Flight and wing shape in the Heliconiini
14 December 2020: James Lewis (Cornell U, USA)
Adaptive diversification of red wing color patterns in Heliconius erato
25 January 2021: Camille Le Roy (CNRS, France)
Convergent morphology and divergent phenology: unravelling the coexistence of mimetic Morpho butterfly species
8 February 2021: Paul Jay (CNRS, France)
The evolution of supergenes: insight from mimicry polymorphism in Heliconius numata
22 February 2021: Kathy Darragh (U Davis, USA)
Pheromones in Heliconius butterflies: Chemical ecology, genetics and behaviour
8 March 2021: Steven van Belleghem (U Puerto Rico)
Selection and isolation define a heterogeneous divergence landscape between hybridizing Heliconius butterflies
22 March 2021: Simon Martin (U Edinburgh, UK)
Formation, reformation and deformation of structural barriers to gene flow in Danaus butterflies
19 April 2021: Joe Hanly (George Washington U, USA)
Speciation genomics in North American Colias butterflies
10 May 2021: Stephen Montgomery (U Bristol, UK)
Mushroom body expansion in Heliconius butterflies
17 May 2021: Brian Counterman (Auburn University, USA)
Genetics of sexually dimorphic UV on Dogface wings
7 June 2021: Kay Lucek (U Basel, Switzerland)
When species meet again – secondary contact zones of Erebia butterflies
14 June 2021: Mahul Chakraborty (UC Irvine, USA)
The big and the small of it: Comparing complete, diploid assemblies of vulnerable and common butterfly species exhibiting dramatic genome size variation
28 June 2021: Yuttapong Thawornwattana (Harvard U, USA)
Full likelihood analysis of divergence and introgression in the erato-sara group of Heliconius
12 July 2021: Erica Westerman (University of Arkansas, USA)
Mechanisms underlying behavioral variation in Heliconius and Bicyclus butterflies
23 August 2021: Adriana Briscoe (UC Irvine, USA)
True UV color vision in a female Heliconius butterfly with two UV opsins
20 September 2021: Anniina Mattila (U Helsinki, Finland)
Dissecting the ecological, evolutionary, life-history and molecular influencers of cyanogenic chemical defense variation in Heliconius erato
18 October 2021: Erika Páez (CNRS, Paris, France)
Hard to catch: experimental evidence supports evasive mimicry
1 November 2021: Stefan Schulz (TU Braunschweig, Germany)
The scent chemistry of Heliconius
15 November 2021: Charlotte Wright (Wellcome Sanger Institute, UK)
The evolution of chromosome structure in Lepidoptera
13 December 2021: Nicolas Chazot (University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden)
Historical biogeography from a supertree of Nymphalidae butterflies and a macroevolutionary perspective on the evolution of mimicry in the tribe Ithomiini.
10 January 2022: Niklas Wahlberg (Lund University, Sweden)
Lepidoptera phylogenomics and the uses of museomics
24 January 2021: Wendy Valencia-Montoya (Harvard University, USA)
Evolutionary trade-offs between male secondary sexual traits revealed by a phylogeny of the hyperdiverse tribe Eumaeini (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae)
7 February 2022: Rishi De-Kayne (University of Edinburgh, UK)
The evolution of complex wing-pattern supergenes in Danaus butterflies
21 February 2022: Johanna Mappes (U Helsinki, Finland)
The ecology of complex polymorphism
7 March 2022: Swanne P Gordon (Washington University in St. Louis, US)
Examining the maintenance of polymorphism in aposematism: lessons from a ‘non-model’ model system
21 March 2022: Jeremy Andersen (University of Massachusetts Amherst, US)
Hybridization to extinction revisited: gene flow across species boundaries as biotic resistance
4 April 2022: Astrid Groot (University of Amsterdam, Netherlands)
The genetic basis and evolutionary significance of sex pheromone variation in moths
18 April 2022: Easter Monday
02 May 2022: Zachariah Gompert (Utah State University, US)
Coupling and introgression in a butterfly hybrid zone
16 May 2022: Martik Chatterjee (Cornell University, US)
Investigating the role of bric-a-brac in regulating wing scale morphology and color patterning across Lepidoptera
30 May 2022: Memorial Day in the USA
13 June 2022: Anyi Mazo-Vargas (George Washington University, US)
TBA